Review of Contemporary Fiction, July 1st, 2000
John Clendennin Burne Hawkes, Jr., was born on 17 August 1925 in Stamford, Connecticut, to Helen (Ziefle) Hawkes and John Clendennin Burne. His mother was the daughter of a banker, and his father's family descended from Irish gentry. As a boy Hawkes worked in a stable where he developed a fixation on horses that would later find frequent expression in his fiction. He writes that one of his earliest memories was of seeing a "trim young girl [trotting ] by on a large and handsome chestnut mare" and how much of his later writing "depended in one way or another on those first configurations of suf...
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